Comments on: Hands on with Google App Engine http://gigaom.com/collaboration/hands-on-with-google-app-engine/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dean Landolt http://gigaom.com/collaboration/hands-on-with-google-app-engine/#comment-70988 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:22:18 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2162#comment-70988 I can only imagine Mike Bayer will have a compatibility shim in SQLAlchemy in no time.

Chris Anderson said it would be trivial, so no problem. And I heard Mike counted to infinity…twice…

]]> By: Marcin Grodzicki http://gigaom.com/collaboration/hands-on-with-google-app-engine/#comment-70987 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:13:55 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2162#comment-70987 Mike, the data handling is a problem, but one to be solved. If you didn’t see it already: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6yh35x – Chris Anderson managed to port AppEngine to EC2 quite easily – but with text files as database. No scalability here, but it’s a matter of time I suppose.

]]> By: Pete Johnson http://gigaom.com/collaboration/hands-on-with-google-app-engine/#comment-70986 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:56:27 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2162#comment-70986 I think the point of it is that you’d never have to run it anywhere else because Google will give you all the bandwidth you’ll ever need. It certainly requires you to drink some of the Google Kool-aid, but it would theoretically remove the “find a host” part of the decision making process. Then again, maybe you don’t want to lose that decision point.

I don’t think this is for everybody, I especially can’t see large enterprises wanting to hand over that much data to Google, but if you are a smaller company the time to market gains would seem significant.

I played around with trying to build a Twitter client with it and got quickly frustrated with the XML parsing not quite working right in the dev environment and it has no native JSON libraries. That’ll get fixed at some point, but it was fun to play with for a couple of days.

It’ll be interesting to see where this goes.

Pete Johnson
HP.com Chief Architect
Personal blog: http://nerdguru.net

]]> By: Mike Gunderloy http://gigaom.com/collaboration/hands-on-with-google-app-engine/#comment-70985 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:09:07 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2162#comment-70985 I think the big issue with porting would be the data handling. Google’s Datastore API uses its own custom query language and way of organizing the data. Eventually someone may write an abstraction layer to cover that and other, more widespread storage engines – but I don’t think that will be an especially easy task.

]]> By: josh http://gigaom.com/collaboration/hands-on-with-google-app-engine/#comment-70984 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:47:38 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=2162#comment-70984 Mike, do you think its possible to abstract the appengine depedency points to make porting elsewhere more possible?

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